Welcome to the official information and update journal for the Round Robin Photo Challenges. This is where you will find all the details for each photo challenge, such as the subject, the link to blog or journal where each challenge is being hosted, and all updates to the players participation lists.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

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THIS CHALLENGE IS NOW CLOSED... THANKS FOT PLAYING! :)

Greetings, Robins! Our new topic comes from Janet of the blog Fond of Photography, for a Challenge date of Wednesday, February 7th. Appropriately for those of us who live in the northern hemisphere (which the last time I checked was not quite all of us), the topic is "Cold!" As Janet explains:

I chose this word because it's FINALLY gotten cold here in New England! Not that I'm happy about it...LOL! I liked it when it was warmer, but I also recognize New England wouldn't be New England without some freezing cold weather and snow. Not to mention, it kills off the yucky bugs :-)So go out and photograph "Cold"! Doesn't have to be weather, use your imagination :-)

Having been in Tucson, Orlando and San Diego in the depths of winter, after living for many years in Syracuse and Columbus, Ohio, I can testify that standards for what is "cold" vary quite a bit around the country. Nevertheless, we all know what it is to be cold, feel cold, act cold, have a cold, tell people not to be so cold, be told that we're cold (as opposed to "getting warmer") in looking for something...well, you get the idea. We keep our soda cold and our frozen dinners colder. And yes, we also skate and build snowmen if we're interested and the opportunity presents itself.

So what does cold mean to you, photographically? You have just under two weeks to go be photographers, and grab your frigid pictures!

Now, try to stay awake while I run down the rules, because right after that I have an Exciting Announcement! Okay, maybe not exciting, but interesting and helpful, I hope!

Do RSVP by leaving your first name, blog name and URL in a comment to this entry (see below for an example*)

Don't post before Wednesday, February 7th. Patience, my friends! If Wednesday arrives sooner for you than for most of us, that's fine, but we tend to schedule our Linking List based on Eastern Standard Time.

Do post on Wednesday, February 7th, any time from midnight to midnight (but if you must delay, up to Tuesday, February 13th is okay)

Don't completely forget to post your entry

Do mention the Round Robin and the topic, and do link back to this blog (and if you include the linking list, that's even better!)

If you're new to the Robins, don't hold back and ask permission to participate. All it takes to join the Robins is to RSVP your intentions and post your entry. Everyone is welcome. Check out the rules in our Welcome Entry for full details.

Okay, now for the allegedly Exciting Announcement! You may have noticed that we added an animated calendar to the sidebar this week to help people keep track of dates and times. Directly underneath that is a link that looks like this:

Click on that link and you'll be on our calendar page on Eventful.com. This is where we'll be posting event notices for our announcement entries (such as this one!), Challenge dates, and possibly Challenge close dates. You can use this page to check our schedule, and even sign up for reminder notices. The Eventful database is searchable, so we're hoping that people looking for online photography events will find us through this new venue. Eventful also disseminates event announcements to other social networking sites, so don't be surprised if your next Round Robin entry gets more traffic than you're used to seeing. We hope so, anyway! And yes, you can also use the site to search for concerts and plays and beer fests and conventions, or announce your own upcoming events.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Hello Robins!This Challenge Is Now Closed, Thanks For Playing! :)For our second Round Robin Challenge of the New Year, John Darrow, author of the blog, "Personal Effects," has chosen a nifty new theme for us, one that will allow is to not only show off our creative talents with the camera, but our technical prowess with photography as well. John has picked, "Macro," as our subject. Here is his vision for our challenge, in his own words...

"The macro feature of the camera is explored in this challenge via the subthemes of the texture (T), color (C), reflection (R), and newness (N). You are to take 4 pictures and present each no larger than 200 x 200 pixels.

For those who know how to combine multiple photos into a singe image, the desired final format is a single 400 x 400 visual with four subsections, in this layout:

T CR N

If you don't know how to do that, just post four separate images, where each is no larger than 200 x 200."

-John Darrow

Sounds like a challenge to me! LOL. I need a lot of practice with doing Macro, so I will be looking forward to taking on this challenge! I hope you will too. The date for this challenge will be Wednesday, January 24th.As always, you can post your entry any time between the midnights of that day, or for up to one week late if you are unavailable on that day. All you have to do to play along is give us your R.S.V. P in the comment thread for this entry, prior to the challenge date, by providing your complete information in the following format...

Please remember to give us your complete information, so we don't have to track you down, and possibly make a mistake in leaving you off the posted linking list. For additional information on how to play along with the Round Robin Challenges, see the **Welcome Entry & Rules Of Play** which can be found on our sidebar. That's it!

Now make me proud, go be photographers, and comeback here on Wednesday, January 24th, to show us your Macro photography! :)

-CarlyNOTE: Please remember Robins, each challenge is presented as a suggestion for how to present your entry, if you are unsure how to do a specific challenge, you can always email Steven, Karen or myself to ask for further assistance. In this case, any MACRO shot will be fine as an entry for the challenge.